Ian Cooper wrote:
> I'd been wondering about the specific difference (well, mostly in
> terms of the later "reverse proxy"). We do need to document the terms
> - my understanding is that they are both the same thing under
> different names.
A "normal proxy" and a "reverse proxy" is technically the same thing.
The difference is in the application of the proxy when viewed from the
network point location view.
A normal proxy is for client access to internet resources.
A reverse proxy is for internet access to local resources.
The term reverse proxy is also used in proxy based firewalls to denotate
the proxy component that forwards external requests to a DMZ or internal
server.
-- Henrik Nordstrom Spare time Squid hacker
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